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Introduction to options: part seven: Selling Options versus Buying Options

The majority of options expire worthless When you first examine options as an investment you discover things which are disconcerting or uncomfortable facts, which

Introduction to Options Part Five: Moneyness.

Options have a characteristic called Moneyness; This is usually understood to mean an option at a particular strike price is either in the money, ITM or out of the

Introduction to Options: Part 3: Buying & Selling Put Options

Introduction Buying & Selling Put Options Put Options This is the right, but not obligation to sell a stock, at a certain price, by a certain date, in groups

Bitcoins Volatility creates opportunities in the stock market: Poor Man’s Covered Call

Background I was checking my positions in Marathon, where I bought Leaps and created a synthetic Spread or Poor Mans covered call. I own some Leaps in Marathon,

Unusual Options Activity in Tesla TSLA

Tesla The Tesla logo is intended to represent the cross-section of an electric motor, Elon Musk explained to a querying Twitter follower. Tesla is of course the

Options Trading: The Poor Mans Covered Call

Selling a Regular Covered Call This is a very popular options strategy, used to generate extra monthly income on stock you own. You basically sell another investor

Using the Magic of Put Options to get a good price on your investment.

Aloha from Hawaii Investing in Defiance 5G Next Gen Connectivity ETF. I read a post by @rollandthomas this week on the Defiance 5G Next Gen Connectivity ETF. This

No risk Options Spread Trade Marathon Bitcoin Mining Company

Option Spread No Risk Trade If your a spread trader, specifically defined risk spreads you know that in most trades your risking X dollars to make Y dollars. Example:

Options Spreads as a financial investment niche: part 1

My financial investment niche is options, and I write often about this niche.! . Investing is a diverse group of activities, some are good at real estate investing,

Option Trading Topics: What are Leap Options?

Introduction: I have been trading options for about 14 years and because of the market conditions I was contemplating buying some Leap Options. So I decided that

Trading Bitcoin Options

Buying and Selling Call Options Buying and selling Call options is the first options trading strategy new options traders learn. It is very straight forward: You

TastyTrade Options Education Site

TastyTrade TastyTrade and the Tastytraders Tom Sosnoff and Tony Battista are two options traders with about 50 years plus of Option Trading experience, who formed

Buying Protective Puts

This is a review of a investment product called a “Protective Put”. After reading this review, you may wish to buy this product. One way to use options to protect

Options Trading Strategies: covered calls and naked puts.

Options Trading Strategies: covered calls and naked puts. Prelude In this post I would like to review two option trading strategies “covered calls” and “naked puts”.

Options Spread Trading a discussion of Probabilities

Option spreads are frequently two out-of-the money strike price positions well above the current price of the stock in most cases. Such as if Apple was priced at

The importance of option Extrinsic and intrinsic value in options trading.

option extrinsic and intrinsic value An important concept to understand in options trading is the concept of an Options value, as defined by it’s intrinsic and extrinsic

Options Investing: deep in the money put spreads in a bull market.

Deep in the money put spreads in a bull market. I am sharing my journey through the options trading world and for over two years I have traded spreads the majority

The best options trading strategy

One thing I have noticed in my journey into options trading is that while most mentors teach novice traders to use strategy A in up markets and strategy B in down

Option Trading: Volatility Crush Trade

Introduction: The market is riding high, so I wanted to review this trade just in case we get some more volatility next week. Call spreads are a common options trading

The importance of option Extrinsic and intrinsic value in options trading.

An important concept to understand in options trading is the concept of an Options value, as defined by it’s intrinsic and extrinsic value because these definitions